On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:

Question of clarification: how does MKCL interact with the ASDF release process?

MKCL tries to bundle the latest official release of ASDF at the time of its own release and tries to do so at most a few months behind the ASDF release timeline.

MKCL will bundle a specially-tailored version of ASDF, is that right?

I much prefer to bundle with the least amount of tailoring possible (ideally none, just drop-in).

If so, there is no requirement that we wait for completion of the MKCL version before releasing ASDF 3.1, is there? What we want is just an ASDF that is a suitable candidate for bundling. Is that correct?

I don't see MKCL as a reference or a required platform for ASDF newest releases. Granting to a Common Lisp implementation any of such statuses is solely your privilege as ASDF maintainer. But obviously, if you were to promote MKCL to any of those levels I would naturally be flattered. :-)

As you say, a ASDF version that is a suitable candidate for bundling is perfectly fine.

My original idea was that ASDF 3.1 would come bundled with MKCL 1.2.0 due a few months from now, but I'd like very much that ASDF 3.1 be good to run on the latest MKCL 1.1.X also (bundled or not).